Carlos Niño - EXTRA PRESENCE // 2xLP, Cassette, Digital album out July 22nd 2022
*announcing* IARC0047
Carlos Niño & Friends - Extra Presence
2xLP / Cassette / Digital album out July 22nd 2022
Today, alongside our West Coast comrade Carlos Niño, we are very happy today share details for EXTRA PRESENCE – a 90 minute, 17 track, 2 LP collection showcasing the Los Angeles modern music scene pioneer's unique, highly developed, self-described “Spiritual, Improvisational, Space Collage” sound, and featuring an incredible cast of collaborators (including Jamael Dean, Nate Mercereau, Shabazz Palaces, Deantoni Parks, Sam Gendel, Laraaji, Jamire Williams, Iasos, and more).
The full album is out July 22nd, 2022, and is available for pre-order on vinyl, cassette, and digital, with a single lead track – “WaterWavesArrival” (featuring Jesse Peterson) – on all digital music platforms now.
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Photo by Azul Niño
EXTRA PRESENCE is an expanded edition of a 10-track suite that Niño self-released exclusively via his Bandcamp page in 2020. Despite its very limited initial release, the original album, which was titled Actual Presence, received glowing praise from dedicated followers of Niño & Friends. In Pitchfork, writer Marty Sartini Garner said: “Carlos Niño believes in a big, beautiful universe that exists in spite of the present suffering. The sprawling, ever-changing sound of Actual Presence is his best attempt yet to recreate the joy of losing yourself to it.”
Garner also contributes digital liner notes for this new release EXTRA PRESENCE, in which he writes: “Rather than simply remixing old tunes, Carlos opens new doors that reveal new rooms. “Youwillgetthroughthis with Koto” isn’t just augmented by a koto; it’s wound up in a new tension that was barely suggested in the original track. “Luis’ Special Shells,” an Actual Presence highlight, dips us into a subaquatic world painted in inky blues and forest greens, the shells themselves the only clear element that remains from the original.”
Niño himself reflects: “The title Actual Presence is a direct reference to a profound experience that I had in the Marin Forest with Iasos. It is a way of describing the awareness of Eternal Now. It is a way of expressing the consciousness of Being . . . EXTRA PRESENCE is a continuation of that feeling, experience, state . . . Listening back today I feel great about this Music. I actively, intentionally project myself into a future of sorts (when I am making a record), imagining how I would feel emotionally about it, later. I only intend to make records that I actually want to listen to and to share, and this is working, the meaning of the Title is clear, the same. I'm stoked and grateful that it has been expanded and that it will be available to/for more people who may enjoy it . . . Thank You for checking it out.”
WaterWavesArrival video
Along with today’s announcement, International Anthem & Niño share a mesermizing aquatic video for the lead track “WaterWavesArrival,” filmed by world champion bodyboarder Mike Stewart and edited by Ari Bernstein.
Watch the Video for Carlos Niño’s “WaterWavesArrival” featuring Jesse Peterson
Carlos Niño & Friends IRL
West Coast friends, family, residents and visitors have a couple nice opportunities to catch Carlos & co performing live in the near future. Details below:
Monday, May 30, 2022
8:00pm
Carlos Niño & Friends featuring Nate Mercereau and Aaron Shaw
Endless Color Patio
Topanga Canyon, California
Free, All Ages
https://www.endlesscolortopanga.com
Thursday, June 30, 2022
7:00pm
Carlos Niño & Friends featuring Nate Mercereau with Special Guest Idris Ackamoor
Caymus-Suisun Winery
Suisun Valley, California
Free, Private
To attend, please write to: carlos@dublab.com
*Deluxe Vinyl Package*
Seventh Energy Moss Center color vinyl
EXTRA PRESENCE comes on two 140-gram vinyl LP (pressed by Pallas in Germany) inside a heavyweight reverse-board single-pocket jacket with a two-sided insert sheet (featuring art by Nep Sidhu), and dome-patterned inner-sleeves.
And, as always, we have a limited edition color vinyl option for the first pressing only, available via our Bandcamp page only, which is 444 copies of *Seventh Energy Moss Center* color vinyl.
Distribution via RedEye for US, Canada, North & South America
This album will also be available on Classic Black Vinyl (same package specs as listed above).
Retailers in the United States or Canada or anywhere else inside of North, South and Central America... Please reach out to your sales rep at RedEye Worldwide if you are interested in making wholesale purchases of this album, or any other album in our catalog. Don't yet have a RedEye rep? Please just reach out to us and we'll get you hooked up!
Distribution via !K7 for Europe, UK, Australia, and ROW
This album will be distributed by our good friends at !K7 and their various territory partners in Europe, UK, Australia, and everywhere else in the world outside of North & South America.
If you are a retailer or store with questions about wholesale or are just looking to get some of our records... we'd like to make things as easy for you as possible, please do not hesitate to reach out!!!
